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Oh my beloved Yorgos Lanthimos has done it again. He has given us a quirky, offbeat, irreverent whopper of a movie, and I loved every single second of it. If this blog's intended goal is to get you to see the films you may not have otherwise chosen, then it was truly built for Poor Things. Every time a Lanthimos film is nominated, it brings me back to the first film of his that I ever saw which was nominated for International Language Film from Greece called "Dogtooth." This is the film that opened up the YL world for me, and you must go back and watch it to really understand how Poor Things becomes a movie.
Emma Stone plays Bella Baxter, a Frankensteinian creation whose dead body is reanimated with a baby's brain. At the beginning of the film, she is a toddler (in a fully adult body) and she is being kept in a home by her father/creator Dr. Godwin Baxter. When Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo) becomes enamored of her, she convinces her father that she must be allowed to go with Wedderburn to experience life. Bella is a seeker, a learner, an adventurer, and she eats life experiences without judgement. Her naïveté about the world makes her a most compelling character, and Emma Stone gives the absolute performance of her career in this role, surrounded by a superior cast in a brightly colored world created specifically for them.
This film is so exceptionally good in the technical categories that the nominations are a slam dunk - cinematography, production design, COSTUME DESIGN (OMG), each one built a universe that only Yorgos Lanthimos could dream up. Surely there will be some winners in these categories (I say again, costume design), and I believe that the incredibly tight Lead Actress category is going to come to down to Emma Stone and Lily Gladstone as its true contenders. This film is a MUST see.
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